High Availability & Disaster Recovery

We remove single points of failure from your infrastructure and build disaster recovery plans with recovery targets that are agreed, documented and actually tested.

Based in Trevose, PA — serving Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware County and Chester County on-site, and businesses across the United States remotely.

What you get

  • Fewer outages

    Clustered servers, redundant storage and network paths keep systems running through hardware failures and maintenance windows.

  • Recovery you've proven

    Scheduled test failovers show your recovery works — and how long it really takes — before you need it.

  • Clear recovery targets

    Recovery time (RTO) and data loss (RPO) objectives agreed per system, so investment matches business impact.

  • A plan anyone can follow

    Step-by-step runbooks your team can execute under pressure, not knowledge locked in one engineer's head.

Downtime is a business problem, not just an IT one

When a critical system goes down, orders stop, staff wait and customers notice. High availability and disaster recovery are about deciding in advance how much interruption your business can tolerate — and building infrastructure that stays within it.

We’ve designed and supported environments in healthcare, finance and manufacturing, where downtime is not an option. We bring the same approach to small and mid-sized businesses in Philadelphia and across the US, scaled to your risks and budget.

High availability: staying up through failures

Failover clustering

Windows Server Failover Clustering lets virtual machines and services move automatically to a healthy host when hardware fails, and lets you patch and maintain hosts without taking workloads offline. We design clusters with the right quorum model, networking and storage to behave predictably when something goes wrong.

Resilient storage and networking

A cluster is only as available as the storage and network beneath it. We build redundancy into storage — shared or hyper-converged with Storage Spaces Direct — and into network paths, so no single cable, switch or disk can take you down.

Application-level availability

For databases, SQL Server Always On availability groups keep data synchronized across servers and fail over quickly. We match the availability technology to each application rather than applying one answer everywhere.

Disaster recovery: coming back from the worst day

Replication to a second site or to Azure

Hyper-V Replica and Azure Site Recovery replicate servers to a secondary location continuously. Using Azure as the recovery site avoids the cost of a second data center while still giving you a place to fail over to.

Runbooks and test failovers

A recovery plan that hasn’t been tested is a hope, not a plan. We write clear, step-by-step runbooks for failover and failback, run a full test failover, and record how long recovery actually takes against your targets.

Who this service is for

  • Businesses where an outage directly stops revenue or operations
  • Organizations with a single server or site supporting critical systems
  • Companies asked by insurers, auditors or customers to show a tested DR plan
  • Teams that have backups but no documented way to restore full services quickly

Our approach

  1. Assess impact

    We identify critical systems, their dependencies and what an hour of downtime or lost data actually costs the business.

  2. Set targets

    Together we agree recovery time and recovery point objectives for each system, balanced against budget.

  3. Design & build

    We implement clustering, replication and a recovery site — on-premises, in Azure or both — to meet those targets.

  4. Test & maintain

    A full test failover validates the plan, and regular re-tests keep it current as your environment changes.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between high availability and disaster recovery?
High availability keeps systems running through component failures — a server, disk or network link — usually within the same site and with little or no interruption. Disaster recovery restores service after a larger event, such as a site outage, ransomware or major data loss, typically at a second location. Most businesses need both, in proportion to the risk.
What are RTO and RPO?
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is how long a system can be down before the impact becomes unacceptable. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is how much data, measured in time, you can afford to lose. An RPO of 15 minutes means recovered data may be up to 15 minutes old. We set both per system, because not everything needs the same protection.
Can Azure be our disaster recovery site?
Yes, and for many small and mid-sized businesses it’s the most cost-effective option. With Azure Site Recovery, servers replicate continuously to Azure and you pay mainly for storage until a failover is needed — no second data center to buy or maintain.
How often should we test our disaster recovery plan?
At least once a year, and after any significant change to your environment. Azure Site Recovery and Hyper-V Replica both support test failovers that don’t affect production, so testing doesn’t have to mean downtime.
Is a backup the same as disaster recovery?
No. Backups protect your data; disaster recovery restores your services. Restoring a full environment from backups alone can take days. A DR plan combines replication, backups, documented procedures and tested recovery to bring services back within an agreed time.

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